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I'm wondering if I can get MO to actually install my profile into the data folder once I have finished adding mods?

OT: Most likely a mod; could you find what in particular? Seems nice ;)After looking around a bit I would think it's Convenient Horses https://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/14950/

Considering it's a summon I wouldn't think of it as lore-breaking. It's already possible to summon a spirit horse and conjure flames, so I think a burning horse is very much believable. Also Serana from DG rides a burning horse or is that something added by one of my mods? (She has always rode that thing in my games, but I have always played DG modded ;))

2) Apachii hairs are only for the player as currently implemented. So beyond char creation no benefit.Also with "RaceMenu" + the optional "DisableFaceGenCache" you wont be crashing or getting hangups during character creation since it doesn't load everything when you open the menu. (Someone needs to do something similar with Smithing, it always freezes for a couple of seconds when I open that menu)

I have used More Hotkeys Please ( https://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/23416 ) for a couple of days now and must say it's very powerful. Whats Included

I have played DG once as DG and half as a vampire (completed SC). Had no issue with Dexion at all.

I think it's more about play style then balance. Personally I pick sword and board any day before dual wielding. Besides skyrim have never been balanced, you dominate the majority of the enemies and once in awhile you come across a mage or two-handed warrior that crush you in two hits.

Question, which parts do you take from CoT and RLO? The guide just makes a comment about Minor Towns, but I guess you don't install Interiors and Dungeons from both, or am I wrong?

Realism and immersion has nothing to do with this mod imo. The mod lets you assign multiple items to single hotkeys. That's it. It doesn't touch realism in any way, it doesn't change immersion at all. It's a convenience mod that either let you free up some hotkeys or lessens the need to use the inventory menu. Nothing else. If you are carrying around way too many items and that is breaking your immersion it's not the fault of this mod.

You don't need to use it for entire sets, say you have two rings and amulets, with +1h weapon damage and +bow damage.You can then bind the sword, ring & amulet to one key and bow the other ring & amulet to another key. And swiftly swap between them, instead of either having 6 hotkeys for the same thing or requiring you to open up the inventory to change equipped items. Besides, at the moment I believe the aim for STEP is to enhance vanilla gameplay, which allows you to carry around multiple sets of armor.

Haven't used Loadout, but as long as you don't assign same key in both Favorites and Loadout I can't see there would be any conflicts.

I have just started a new character, but so far RT goes quite well together with Face to face conversation.

I could be wrong here, but I think the mod works "out of the box" as long as there isn't mods that add new shields, weapons (you still need the custom skeleton).But I think the SkyProccer part is only required if there are mods that add additional items. But as I said I could be wrong and it would need testing or confirmation by Neo.

Size of a mod should not be a factor imo (disc space is cheap), could be a comment about it when installing.

Haven't tested the mod yet but looks nice, I wonder if it would be possible to either carry the shield in hand or on the back. Say if I only press the sheath button I keep holding it in my hand and if I press it for 0.5 sec it places the shield on the back.

I could be wrong here, haven't used MO much at all (prefer Wrye).But the order in MO is the order you will install the mods, this is important in case mods overwrite files. BOSS will only sort your esm, esp files so they are loaded by the game in an order that most likely will work best. However while BOSS sorts most mods in a good order it can't handle them all so using BOSS Userlist Manager is a good compliment for mods that are not yet recognized by BOSS. BOSS can also give some small notes about conflicts and other things, but again it's not always perfect and it's also up to the user to know what he/she installs and if it works with other mods.

Wouldn't that significantly reduce the textures quality? I'd think it's best to leave that to texture creators who have access to uncompressed texture files.It kind of depends on the texture, it will of course reduce the quality. But a better question is, will you notice it while playing. There are TONs of textures that are extremely oversized and you will only notice the "extra" quality in comparison shots.

Did some very limited testing today and I run mostly around 45+ fps inside Helgen dungeons, 36-45 fps from Helgen to Riverwood. I reduced MaxDecalsPerFrame to 250 which seemed to help a bit, but that could be imagination more testing would be needed on that. Though I got quite some drop once I got close to the river so next step would be to make changes to water. Haven't yet had time to tweak with it. Any suggestions, start with uninstalling WATER or is there something else I could try first? (I never did the water reflect ini tweak, from the step guide so that one is still at vanilla 512)

Hi everyone, thanks for the awesome work put into STEP. I'm currently in need of some suggestion & help as I thought I should replay Skyrim since a new DLC is upcoming and I haven't played the previous ones yet. Since I haven't been around Skyrim modding for quite some time I did an STEP install and added a couple of extra mods on top. ENB used is SkyRealism Cinematic (I removed DoF & letterbox) It went quite well, however I get random stuttering (my guess is that it's probably too heavy on the textures for my graphic card). My system is Phenom II @ 3.8Ghz, 4GB ram, GTX 460 1GB OC. As for TPC I used the Lite version, and installed everything except Parallax, SGD (SGD is installed later on), Lush Trees, Lush Grass. I choose Lite/Performance options on the mods that I could. Bain Packages: As for CoT, I have only installed Core & DG patch (No Dungeons, Interior or Nights). I thinking on adding Interior & maybe Nights though. I'm probably going to remove, Babettes & Wildlife (will also need to remove SkyRealism FF because of req.) though I highly doubt these are the one causing the stuttering. Anyone got some suggestion on what I should change / remove to gain a bit of performance?

Thanks for the help z. Now I have run into another problem. I have used the TPC mod and planned on Optimizing the Combined textures, however all files are blue (some setting is preventing them from being optimized). I have used the settings from the OP and then I have tested with ticking and un-ticking things in Ignore & Settings. I have tried with both pre5b and pre3 versions of DDSOpt (I had no problem optimizing the Vanilla & HRDLC textures) EDIT - SOLVED Managed to solve it, though I think it's kinda strange. If I in DDSOpt selected the Texture folder (TPC/Combined/Data/Textures) I got everything in blue. If I selected the Data Folder (TPC/Combined/Data) then the same files appeared in green.

These are the line I have in the HRDLC_Fix-START.bat file I got from your post. subst r: ".\HRDLC1\textures" subst w: ".\HRDLC2\textures" subst t: ".\HRDLC_Tweaks\textures" subst u: ".\HD_Texture_DLC_Fix\textures"Can't really work with that and two Tweaks folders.Would need to either extract both 3.2 and 3.1 beta to the same folder (and I don't know in what order) or an batch setup that can handle one more subst designed for one of the HRDLC_Tweaks versions. or am I just too tired and stupid atm?

Was planning on Opting the HR DLC textures, but the batch file I downloaded is not made for the these instructions: https://forum.step-project.com/showthread.php?tid=228&pid=12819#pid12819 Instructions says to make two Tweaks folders but the batch file is made to handle just one. Is it possible to extract them into the same folder and if so in which order?

In prepare for STEP 2.2 and TPC 1.7 I'm thinking about DDSopting some of the textures for that TPC uses, especially the required packs. I'm wondering if there is any know issues with some files while using the recommended settings for v0.8 pre3 or if it's just to optimize?